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Showing 16 profiles · 4 pro-AI · 4 anti-AI · 8 nuanced

Pro-AI9.0pro

Andrea Iervolino

Film Producer

Italian-Canadian producer behind dozens of features and one of the film industry’s most outspoken AI advocates. He produced what he calls the first feature directed by an AI — a synthetic “director” named FellinAI — while insisting it complements rather than replaces traditional cinema.

#Filmmaker#Entertainment

Pro-AI1.5pro

Antoine Fuqua

Director

Director of Training Day, Olympus Has Fallen, The Equalizer trilogy, and the Michael Jackson biopic Michael. He calls AI “another paintbrush,” comparing the panic around it to the industry’s long-forgotten war over digital cameras.

#Director#Filmmaker

Pro-AI7.3pro

Matt Stone

South Park Co-Creator

Co-creator of South Park and co-founder of the deepfake studio Deep Voodoo, which raised $20M to bring consent-based AI visual effects to Hollywood — “we stumbled upon this amazing technology.”

#Animator#Comedian

Pro-AI4.0pro

Tim Haines

Creator of Walking with Dinosaurs

Creator of the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs and showrunner of NBC’s Surviving Earth. Weeks after saying AI was coming at his field “like a giant bull T-Rex,” he promoted generative AI on stage at DinoCon 2026 — drawing boos from attendees and a public disavowal from the convention.

#Filmmaker#Director

Nuanced6.8anti

Baz Luhrmann

Filmmaker

Australian director of Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, The Great Gatsby, and Elvis. He curated a 2023 exhibition made with the AI robot artist Ai-Da, says he is “not scared of AI as a creative” and used it in Elvis — while warning of nefarious uses and calling for new rules and governance.

#Director#Filmmaker

Nuanced

Daniel Kwan

Filmmaker

Half of the Oscar-winning duo Daniels, behind Everything Everywhere All at Once. He spent three years producing The AI Doc, co-founded the Creators Coalition on AI, and says he is terrified of the technology while refusing to preach against using it.

#Director#Filmmaker

Nuanced

James Wan

Director and Producer

Malaysian-Australian horror architect behind Saw, Insidious, The Conjuring and Aquaman, and the producer of the killer-AI hit M3GAN. He thinks AI will remake far more than Hollywood — and that the guilds have to draw the boundaries now, before the genie is out of the bottle.

#Director#Filmmaker

Nuanced

Jon Favreau

Filmmaker

The director of Iron Man, The Jungle Book and The Mandalorian, and the filmmaker who pushed Hollywood into LED-volume virtual production. He says he has “a healthy concern” about AI, has not used generative AI himself, and wants the industry to disclose which tools it uses so audiences “understand what they’re buying.”

#Director#Filmmaker

Nuanced

Jon M. Chu

Director

Director of Crazy Rich Asians, In the Heights and the two-part Wicked. A Silicon Valley kid who calls AI “a thinking tool” and studies it closely — while calling the scraping of Hollywood’s scripts and films an “original sin” he can never forgive.

#Director#Filmmaker

Nuanced

Michael Mann

Director

Director of Heat, Thief, The Insider and Collateral, and a lifelong early adopter of new production technology. He says he may use AI for aging and de-aging on Heat 2 — but only where the drama demands it, and only if a human still acts, writes and directs the performance.

#Director#Filmmaker

Nuanced

Shawn Levy

Director and Producer

Director of Deadpool & Wolverine and Star Wars: Starfighter, producer of Stranger Things. He calls AI an inevitable and “essential” part of filmmaking’s future — provided it supports the creative voice rather than replacing it — while saying he has yet to use it in any meaningful way.

#Director#Filmmaker

Nuanced1.3anti

Tommy Harper

Producer

Producer on Top Gun: Maverick and Wednesday who thinks the microseries format is about to break through, and that AI will not carry it. His line at the 2026 Vertical Media Summit: you can generate anything, but without human emotion nobody watches.

#Entertainment#Microdrama

Anti-AI9.5anti

Adam McKay

Filmmaker

Oscar-winning writer-director of The Big Short, Vice and Don’t Look Up, and one of Hollywood’s loudest anti-AI voices. He posts a near-daily boycott case against generative AI, runs a climate studio with a no-AI policy, and calls the technology “the ultimate scab.”

#Director#Filmmaker

Anti-AI7.4anti

David Simon

Creator of The Wire

The journalist-turned-showrunner behind The Wire and The Deuce became one of television’s fiercest opponents of AI-written scripts during the 2023 writers’ strike, saying he would sooner quit than let a machine solve his story problems.

#Filmmaker#Journalist

Anti-AI6.3anti

Judd Apatow

Filmmaker and Comedy Producer

Director of The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up and the producer behind two decades of American comedy. He signed the 2025 Hollywood letter opposing AI copyright exemptions and describes generative AI as factory logic: scraped, generic, and missing a point of view.

#Director#Filmmaker

Anti-AI7.8anti

Paul Feig

Director

Creator of Freaks and Geeks and director of Bridesmaids, Spy, and The Housemaid. He calls generative AI “technology literally none of us asked for” and signed the Human Artistry Campaign’s anti-training-theft letter.

#Director#Filmmaker